The vaccination campaign targets children under 10 according to the WHO. Each child will receive two drops of oral polio vaccine in two rounds, the second to be administered four weeks after the first.
Nigeria plans to start mpox vaccinations on Oct. 8, following regulatory approvals, a spokesperson for the National Primary Health Care Development Agency confirmed. The country received its first shipment of 10,000 mpox vaccine doses from…
After a rare and relatively swift six weeks of talks, Israel and Hamas have agreed to three separate three-day pauses in fighting, starting Sunday in central Gaza, to allow for the vaccination of some 640,000 children against polio amid…
The Gaza Health Ministry began its polio vaccination campaign Saturday to immunize more than 90% children under age 10 throughout the embattled Palestinian enclave.
The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) has announced that the tentative start date for the Mpox vaccination campaign is October 8, 2024. Remi Adeleke, Head of the Public Relations Unit at the NPHCDA, who exclusively…
By Niamh Kennedy, CNN (CNN) — A first group of babies received polio vaccinations in Gaza on Saturday ahead of the official start of a much-anticipated United Nations-led campaign on Sunday. Babies in the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis,…
The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) has announced that the mpox vaccination campaign in Nigeria will begin on October 8, 2024. According to Remi Adeleke, Head of the Public Relations Unit at the NPHCDA, vaccine…
Polio’s reemergence poses a threat to the war-torn territory and adjacent regions. A baby, Gaza’s first polio case in 25 years, can no longer move his limbs.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stressed that it is imperative for all parties involved to ensure the safety of health workers, medical facilities, and children during the rollout of this vital public health initiative
The Federal Government has announced that the provisional start date for Monkey Pox (Mpox) vaccinations is October 8, 2024. Naija News reports that the Head of the Public Relations Unit at the National Primary Health Care Development…
Get latest articles and stories on World at LatestLY. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has called for the protection of health teams involved in Gaza's polio vaccination campaign, following recent violence that has claimed…
The National Primary Health Care Development Agency has said the tentative date to commence vaccination for mpox is October 8, 2024. The Head of the Public Relations Unit at the NPHCDA, Remi Adeleke, who disclosed this exclusively to our…
At the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021, governments and health care centers across the country faced a difficult but important question: Should health care workers be required to obtain the COVID-19 vaccine?
A new study has found that state-level COVID-19 vaccination mandates successfully increased vaccine rates among health care workers, a finding that, while perhaps unsurprising, provides evidence of room to improve vaccination rates even…
Starting Sunday, the Israeli military and Hamas will observe brief, staggered pauses in fighting to allow for 640,000 children to be vaccinated, officials said.